Jonah 4:3 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְעַתָּ֣ה	ve.'a.Tah	and therefore	H6258 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	O Yahweh	H3068 →
קַח־	kach-	take	H3947 →
נָ֥א	na'	please	H4994 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
נַפְשִׁ֖י	naf.Shi	life my	H5315 →
מִמֶּ֑נִּי	mi.Me.ni	from me	H4480 →
כִּ֛י	ki	for	H3588 →
ט֥וֹב	Tov	[is] good	H2896 →
מוֹתִ֖י	mo.Ti	death my	H4194 →
מֵחַיָּֽי׃ ס	me.chai.Yai	more than life my	H2416 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H4194motideath my156×

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
leads to
- Revelation 14:13
  And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors,…
- Proverbs 22:1
  A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.
- Ecclesiastes 4:2
  So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
- 2 Corinthians 5:8
  We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
- Philippians 1:21–23
  For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Through
1 Kings 19:4
while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life,…
leads to
- Numbers 11:15
  If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
- Jonah 4:8
  As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me…
Through
Jonah 4:8
As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me…
leads to
- Psalms 121:6
  The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”Ecclesiastes 7:1A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.Numbers 11:15If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”Jeremiah 20:14–18Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.Jonah 4:8As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”Numbers 20:3The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!Job 3:20–21Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,Job 6:8–9If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:1 Corinthians 9:15But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that something be done for me. Indeed, I would rather die than let anyone nullify my boast.Philippians 1:21–25For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.Job 7:15–16so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!Exodus 14:12Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”Numbers 14:2All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!Jeremiah 8:3And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.Job 3:21who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.Job 7:16I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

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